Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Equally important is the job you are working at.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

If we will admit time into our thoughts at all, the mythologies, those vestiges of ancient poems, wrecks of poems, so to speak, the world's inheritance,... these are the materials and hints for a history of the rise and progress of the race; how, from the condition of ants, it arrived at the condition of men, and arts were gradually invented. Let a thousand surmises shed some light on this story.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may be born any day, for fair winds and foul blow right on over it without distinction.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.